Things you have bought that were immediately shite (Christmas/New Year Edition)

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Bought beautiful new bedsheets. Reduced in the sale, gorgeous colours with toadstools on them, felt ok in the shop.
Got them home, washed them and they have gone shiny 🤬 like the kind of static shiny so that your duvet ends up in a weird shape and you're rolled up like a stuck sweating pig.

Am absolutely gutted (and furious 😠) and hoping a trip to Homesense will cure me of my wierd shiny-bedsheet-hate.

@CrowleyKitten I recommend M and S Big Mix as a new contender for best Christmas chocolate tin....

I got a present of a box of Dairy Box chocolates, they used to be the nicest ones..now they are just disgusting. Why oh why did they have to change them? I remember the toffee caramel ones and the turkish and strawberry yum. Now it's all gingerbread, iced pudding, vanilla cup. All weird flavours.

I bought some wrapping paper from Primark and it was really good. The tear strip worked perfectly on every roll

I'm not sure we had anything that was disappointing this year. I think one thing that we will continue to do is buy the gingerbread hearts etc which we usually buy from Lidl or the supermarket from the local Polish shop. They were as I remembered they were from my childhood (Polish family)

Flogged off to a big American corporation who went as cheap as possible. The current recipe for the chocolate alone would probably make the original Cadburys swoon in horror and the fillings are chosen on the same basis.

Dairy Box are Nestle but I agree. Sadly the taste standards have changed to increase profits.

@CandidHedgehog , I doubt that the quality of Dairy Box chocolates would worry the founders of Cadbury's. Dairy Box is made by Nestle.

Cross-posted.

IMO, the BOSH! one is the best. There's not much call for vegan replacements and there's suggestions where there are - I love it; also the mindful chef cookbook.

I went into a proper stationers this time last year and bought myself a lovely heavy sellotape dispenser. It’s since been nicked twice by siblings but I’ve been back and got the same model because there is nothing better or more grown up feeling than a proper sellotape dispenser and more importantly being able to wrap things/presents properly.

Thanks, we use the Co-op so will try to remember fir next Christmas!!

I bought my big heavy sellotape dispenser from Amazon just before Christmas. It's enormous and weighs a tonne (almost) but it made wrapping presents a breeze - I could tear the sellotape off one handed.

A waffle maker. Just cannot make them as nice as the shop bought ones. It is now gathering dust at the back of the cupboard.

Hershey's, whose chocolate formulation was designed for military rations and its most important requirement was to stay solid at high temperatures.

Oooh thats annoying. We had these and they were lovely and cooked well in the plastic tray (once I'd replaced them because I didn't read the instructions properly lol)

@Rosscameasdoody they also did a mini Yorkshire with shredded beef. No sauce on it. They needed to stay in the tray as they had round bottoms and wouldn't stand up

If you know anyone who can sew it would be really easy just to alter the cover you have to fit your double duvet.

A Braun epilator to replace my old Reminton. Second time I used it the roller cap fell off and the rotating gripping bits clamped on to my thigh so hard it looked like I'd been attacked by a herd of piranha fish.

It does works but I'm now too scared to use it 🙄

IMO the quality of "British" chocolate has gone down since they were bought up by foreign companies. They all seem to have palm oil in now. I was shocked when I bought a chocolate orange and found that it did not snap, it was soft and sticky.

The quality of continental chocolate at Aldi in their own brands is far higher.

Tony's Chocolonely is good.

Did you see that Cadbury have lost their royal warrant, presumably because their chocolate is now shit?

A richly deserved loss imo. Cadbury’s chocolate tastes like soap now and the mouth feel is all kinds of wrong.

Edited, as a PP said the same thing about the royal warrant!

@Jimmyspiano love my Shark Liftaway, we've got a Shark cordless too but the lift away gets used more

The M&S versions are so much nicer.

Have seen complaints on lots of threads recently, about various chocolates.

I feel I'm the only one alive who still absolutely ADORES Cadbury lol. And my 2yo and 4yo, obviously.

I was given some M&S ones and bought a box of QS. Imo the M&S ones were even worse than the QS, except for the M&S coffee ones, which were nice.